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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Jamisjockey on August 21, 2015, 08:39:53 AM
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So thousands of dolts used their .gov and .mil accounts to access the cheaters site. Now we know some are even linked to the WH.
http://news.yahoo.com/evidence-infidelities-spreads-online-wake-hack-144026220.html#
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Fuggedabout the White House. I want to know who at State used the service.
Oh, yeah. Silly me. She used a private server.
stay safe.
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I've been using the prhase: "The salad days of Schadenfreude" a lot this week.
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I used to get email from them at one of my Gmail accounts. Some guy in Sydney, Australia with the same name as me signed up. The emails he used to get were hilarious, and my wife and I were rolling around on the floor. He was in his mid-20's and was looking for some sort of cougar arrangement.
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Apparently the service intentionally did not screen email addresses. Thus it should be taken with a significant grain of salt.
The unreleased credit card info would be a different story.
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Apparently the service intentionally did not screen email addresses. Thus it should be taken with a significant grain of salt.
The unreleased credit card info would be a different story.
Definitely for the ones like bo@whitehouse.gov and the like. But random schlub nobody has ever heard of with a high level security clearance and a .mil address.. probably legit.
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Apparently the service intentionally did not screen email addresses. Thus it should be taken with a significant grain of salt.
The unreleased credit card info would be a different story.
I just don't see any reason for people to fake regular run of the mill .gov and .mil accounts for the site, though. I'd have serious doubts that a high ranking politician or member of the military would be legit. City, state, federal employees and members of the military, though.....I have no doubt the majority of those are authentic.
Oh, and Josh Duggar admitted he used the site. Which lends legitimacy to the released addresses not being faked.
Definitely for the ones like bo@whitehouse.gov and the like. But random schlub nobody has ever heard of with a high level security clearance and a .mil address.. probably legit.
Exactly.
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Definitely for the ones like bo@whitehouse.gov and the like. But random schlub nobody has ever heard of with a high level security clearance and a .mil address.. probably legit.
It's actually quite interesting. No one can be individually proven to have used the service, but some very high percentage are likely the actual users.
So, you can't exactly fire someone or use it in a divorce proceeding (or shouldn't, anyways), but the balance of probability...
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I used to get email from them at one of my Gmail accounts. Some guy in Sydney, Australia with the same name as me signed up. The emails he used to get were hilarious, and my wife and I were rolling around on the floor. He was in his mid-20's and was looking for some sort of cougar arrangement.
This thread is useless without, uh, text.
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So thousands of dolts used their .gov and .mil accounts to access the cheaters site. Now we know some are even linked to the WH.
http://news.yahoo.com/evidence-infidelities-spreads-online-wake-hack-144026220.html#
I don't give a hang about this debacle, but thank you for using the word "dolt" in context. =)
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thank goodness, all my indescretions were several ex wives ago, and many years in the past. No internet back then. :)
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I remember hearing that a large percentage of the users/members of that site were fake so I am curious on the percentages.
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I remember hearing that a large percentage of the users/members of that site were fake so I am curious on the percentages.
Well there's an accusation that the female users/members of the site are fakes, and that employees were paid to create profiles to lure men in.
I don't give a hang about this debacle, but thank you for using the word "dolt" in context. =)
government employees with secret clearances using their .gov addresses to access a site for cheating on their spouses should concern you. This makes them vulnerable for espionage.
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Well there's an accusation that the female users/members of the site are fakes, and that employees were paid to create profiles to lure men in.
government employees with secret clearances using their .gov addresses to access a site for cheating on their spouses should concern you. This makes them vulnerable for espionage.
fair enough. It does, and I could have elaborated in the wake of an offhand compliment. However, in the context of: the OPM hack; HRC's toilet server; IRS targeting/obfuscation & stonewalling; Snowden; Brad/lea Manning-WikiLeaks; EPA private e-mail; et al., etc., ad nauseam, this is one drain hole in a very (regrettably) efficient colander.
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Well there's an accusation that the female users/members of the site are fakes, and that employees were paid to create profiles to lure men in.
I recall hearing similar issues about Match, eHarmony and the like, and that a certain percentage of 'real' female profiles were from escorts looking for business.
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Apparently the service intentionally did not screen email addresses. Thus it should be taken with a significant grain of salt.
The unreleased credit card info would be a different story.
Credit card info has been released, it just isn't in a searchable website yet like the emails are.
It's actually quite interesting. No one can be individually proven to have used the service, but some very high percentage are likely the actual users.
So, you can't exactly fire someone or use it in a divorce proceeding (or shouldn't, anyways), but the balance of probability...
Credit card info as well as geolocation info are included, and I believe details of how active the account was. So it'll be more definitive for the folks who actually did use it.
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Credit card info has been released, it just isn't in a searchable website yet like the emails are.
Credit card info as well as geolocation info are included, and I believe details of how active the account was. So it'll be more definitive for the folks who actually did use it.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
That should shake things up around the country over the next year or two.
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That should shake things up around the country over the next year or two.
Boom time for divorce lawyers.
I wonder if they were behind the hack . . . [tinfoil]
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Boom time for divorce lawyers.
I wonder if they were behind the hack . . . [tinfoil]
Form letter from tile crawler:
Hello Mr/Mrs Cuckold,
Are you aware that information from your household has been found in a hoard of data from the world's largest web site for adulterers? If you would like to know more about the nature of this information and seek matrimonial/legal redress please contact the law offices of Dewy, Cheatham, and Howe (1-800-DIE-POOR).
[On the other hand, if you know perfectly well what that information is, how it got there, and you were first to get to the mail today, please contact us and for a small consideration we will cease sending solicitation letters to your household.]
Regards,
The Law Offices of Dewy, Cheatham, and Howe
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Well there's an accusation that the female users/members of the site are fakes, and that employees were paid to create profiles to lure men in.
Gee, y'think? I got a free 3 months on one of the regular singles sites and used it to explore how many actual women vs obvious fakes were on there. 90% of the respondents during live chat couldn't correctly identify the weather where they claimed to be. (And that's allowing for a huge margin in how one describes weather, too, but unless you're full blood Inuit, 40F and pouring rain ain't a beautiful day for a walk on the beach.
I am somewhat curious, though, how hard my ex wife is squinting to try and find my name in the released list.
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I am somewhat curious, though, how hard my ex wife is squinting to try and find my name in the released list.
Me too.
Although up until yesterday, I had never heard the name "Ashley Madison".
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Me too.
Although up until yesterday, I had never heard the name "Ashley Madison".
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I kid you not, that site had heavy advertising during at least one Super Bowl awhile back.
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I kid you not, that site had heavy advertising during at least one Super Bowl awhile back.
I remember that.
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Four dumb *expletive deleted*ck current employees at my college used their official school work account to sign up for the site, as did several students.
If you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to sign up for a hushmail/yahoo/gmail account to get your cheating and whoring on, you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to be allowed to live.
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Four dumb *expletive deleted*ck current employees at my college used their official school work account to sign up for the site, as did several students.
If you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to sign up for a hushmail/yahoo/gmail account to get your cheating and whoring on, you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to be allowed to live.
Tiger Woods---->Trac-fone. Had he done that he'd probably still have endorsements from Buick and the like and be millions richer.
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Four dumb *expletive deleted*ck current employees at my college used their official school work account to sign up for the site, as did several students.
If you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to sign up for a hushmail/yahoo/gmail account to get your cheating and whoring on, you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to be allowed to live hold a clearance
FTFY
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Anyone seen any "famous" names popup from this? I mean other then that Duggar kid.
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(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1156.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp569%2Fjackstraw4449%2Fworried_zpslcby7o7z.jpg&hash=0f1fe784b1d0d4c7720e14955377c972337591c0)
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I recall hearing similar issues about Match, eHarmony and the like, and that a certain percentage of 'real' female profiles were from escorts looking for business.
I was thinking more about paid users doing flirts and other minor contacts to keep people interested in the site so they continue shelling out money.
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(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1156.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp569%2Fjackstraw4449%2Fworried_zpslcby7o7z.jpg&hash=0f1fe784b1d0d4c7720e14955377c972337591c0)
Bill has go to be sooooo far beyond caring, by this time.
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I kid you not, that site had heavy advertising during at least one Super Bowl awhile back.
They have BILLBOARDS up in places.
IIRC, I saw one on a business trip driving through southern PA. A friend found a photo of one somewhere in IA, I think it was.
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They have BILLBOARDS up in places.
IIRC, I saw one on a business trip driving through southern PA. A friend found a photo of one somewhere in IA, I think it was.
Pretty sure I've seen one of the billboards. Don't recall where though
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http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944
Pretty much every woman listed on Ashley Madison is fake and/or a bot. ;/
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http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944
Pretty much every woman listed on Ashley Madison is fake and/or a bot. ;/
Yeah if I'm going to get divorced over being caught cheating, I'd better actually be cheating lol
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OK, I get going the low road and servicing the base desires of folks as a means to make money. Sex, drugs, violence, etc. almost always sells to someone.
But how would this company make money if their product never or almost never resulted in hook ups? Eventually, even the most desperate wanna-be adulterer is going to to stop mashing the mouse button.
Is it just a grand facade of baloney to pump up perceived value and then sell out to some nitwit with more millions than brains?
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Guy I know scrubbed the database, and there were some people on it I know/know of.
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OK, I get going the low road and servicing the base desires of folks as a means to make money. Sex, drugs, violence, etc. almost always sells to someone.
But how would this company make money if their product never or almost never resulted in hook ups? Eventually, even the most desperate wanna-be adulterer is going to to stop mashing the mouse button.
Is it just a grand facade of baloney to pump up perceived value and then sell out to some nitwit with more millions than brains?
Turn over. Just like any other business with poor customer service, except that the users are never going to post negative reviews.
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OK, I get going the low road and servicing the base desires of folks as a means to make money. Sex, drugs, violence, etc. almost always sells to someone.
But how would this company make money if their product never or almost never resulted in hook ups? Eventually, even the most desperate wanna-be adulterer is going to to stop mashing the mouse button.
Is it just a grand facade of baloney to pump up perceived value and then sell out to some nitwit with more millions than brains?
The Gizmodo article said that guys were paying money to buy a fantasy. Probably not much different than shelling out money at a strip club, although at a club you at least get to look at something.
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The Gizmodo article said that guys were paying money to buy a fantasy. Probably not much different than shelling out money at a strip club, although at a club you at least get to look at something.
That and the clients have to pay to have their profile deleted.
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That and the clients have to pay to have their profile deleted.
I saw that in the article as well. I wonder how much the profile deletion fee was.
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I saw that in the article as well. I wonder how much the profile deletion fee was.
$19, according to what I'm seeing on the interwebz.
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$19, according to what I'm seeing on the interwebz.
Is that what it cost you? :P
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$19, according to what I'm seeing on the interwebz.
And they took the money and did not delete the information :rofl:
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The Gizmodo article said
some woman employee was suing over repetitive stress injuries, from making bogus accounts. :rofl: :rofl:
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There was an article in yesterday's Washington Post I believe in titled my wife was addicted to Ashley Madison . Was a good read although very sad one
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At least two suicides in response to the hack:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506
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At least two suicides in response to the hack:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506
Karma and Darwin come together...
Yeah, I know, some will say callous, but damn, if you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to use a throwaway email account and something like a Visa gift card brought for cash to get your infidelity on...you shouldn't be allowed out of the house without adult supervision
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Karma and Darwin come together...
Yeah, I know, some will say callous, but damn, if you are too *expletive deleted*ing stupid to use a throwaway email account and something like a Visa gift card brought for cash to get your infidelity on...you shouldn't be allowed out of the house without adult supervision
Yup
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Is it just a grand facade of baloney to pump up perceived value and then sell out to some nitwit with more millions than brains?
Given the female name of the site, I take that as a given.
[/duckingrunning]
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There was an article in yesterday's Washington Post I believe in titled my wife was addicted to Ashley Madison . Was a good read although very sad one
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I read that. Turns out his wife was someone completely different when she was stepping out than who she ever had been at home.
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Can you say oops: http://www.businessinsider.com/100-espn-employees-on-ashley-madison-2015-8 (http://www.businessinsider.com/100-espn-employees-on-ashley-madison-2015-8)
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Interesting how there was a big DHS bust of a homosexual prostitution organization right after this hack. Did not know DHS was into that sort of thing. Wonder if the hackers exposed some skin in the political game.
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http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-madison-database-1725558944
Whatever the answer, the more I examined those 5.5 million female profiles, the more obvious it became that none of them had ever talked to men on the site, or even used the site at all after creating a profile. Actually, scratch that. As I’ll explain below, there’s a good chance that about 12,000 of the profiles out of millions belonged to actual, real women who were active users of Ashley Madison.
Either way, we’re left with data that suggests Ashley Madison is a site where tens of millions of men write mail, chat, and spend money for women who aren’t there.
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Interesting how there was a big DHS bust of a homosexual prostitution organization right after this hack. Did not know DHS was into that sort of thing. Wonder if the hackers exposed some skin in the political game.
Seems as though there's been surprisingly little skin exposed throughout this whole mess, except maybe some that's been digitally retouched...